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S. 154: PROTECT Act

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S. 154: PROTECT Act

113th Congress · introduced 2013-01-24 · Health · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2013-01-24 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

PROTECT Act

Plain summary

Preventing the Offering of Elective Coverage of Taxpayer-Funded-Abortion Act of 2013 or PROTECT Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in entering into contracts with health insurance issuers, to ensure that no multi-state qualified health plan offered in a health benefit exchange provides coverage of abortion. Excepts from such limitation: (1) a pregnancy that results from rape or incest; or (2) a case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, injury, or illness that would place the her in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself. Preempts any state law requiring coverage of or funding for abortions in multi-state qualified health plans.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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What does this mean? (plain words)

Official text

PROTECT Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK] · 16 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

John Thune (R-SD), Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Boozman (R-AR), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), James E. Risch (R-ID), Roger F. Wicker (R-MS), Mike Lee (R-UT), Jerry Moran (R-KS)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong113-s154 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113